Misery Quotes - Page 12

• Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

  Frank Sulloway

  Children, Fall

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• Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.

  Afua Cooper

  Spiritual, Pain, Book

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• Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Government, Size, Economic

  Kirkpatrick Sale (2017). “Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future”, p.64, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

  Mark Rothko

  Fifty, Dollars, Looks

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• A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

  Clive Barker

  Lying, Waiting, Monsters

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• Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Riches, Mercy, Wretchedness

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756”, p.441, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Death, Christian

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Heart, People

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.164, Shambhala Publications

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• Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, People, Village

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• What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together - in misery, but happy to not be apart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sex, Fighting, Bad Relationship

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2006.

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• Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

  Thomas Boston

  Grace, Free Will

  "Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravity, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery".

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• I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

  Ezra Cornell

  Choices, Important, Affair

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• Don’t be sad by what you see
  It’s true life has it’s miseries
  But one thing’s always worked for me
  Worry ends when faith begins.

  Sami Yusuf

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Song: Worry Ends

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• What else is there for the rich to do,
  If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

  Pancho Villa

  Rich, Poor, Ifs

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• Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Military, War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Ideas, Crowns, Facts

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• It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

  Publilius Syrus

  Companion, Consolation, Wretched

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 995, 1856.

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• I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

  John Scott

  Doubt, Decided

  "The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With Selections from His Correspondence". Book by Horace Twiss, 1844.

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• I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.

  Almeida Garrett

  Ignorance, Men, Order

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• The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

  Winston Churchill

  Vices, Politics, Prosperity

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• Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Reality, Imagination, Doe

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Block, Mean

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• We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving, Waste, Nasty

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 25, 2016

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• The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Soul, Vedas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.17, Advaita Ashrama

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